'Freedom Awards'

That has a nice ring to it. And it's one of the suggestions made by Boycott-RIAA founder Bill Evans to beat Hollywood's stepped up attempts to gain total control of the music 'industry', and anyone involved with it.

Hollywood? That's the name the entertainment industry, of which the Big Five record labels are merely components.

Evans is calling on professional artists, musicians, producers, directors, "or anyone who's been ignored or stepped on by the RIAA" to start their own licensing companies, unions, manufacturers, distributors and movie companies.

"We need to separate our business dealings from anyone tainted by the RIAA, he says, continuing:

"What about publicly rewarding our best songwriters, singers and producers with 'Freedom Awards'?

He said getting an effective record labels movement started would cost money, but to fund it, "Just stop buying CD's and put the money in an 'Independent Freedom Movement of America' fund.

I agree with Bill that there needs to be this kind of movement. We need to support and reward those artists who do not consort with the RIAA, and conversely, we need to let the artists and recording companies know that association with the RIAA and its jackbooted attempts at intimidation of the citizens of this country will not be supported , will not be tolerated, and that association with the RIAA will become a stigma, basically meaning that if you are with the RIAA, your sales are going to fall quickly than WorldCom stocks after the big disclosure!

BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS!

Call to action: Stop buying CDs now!

I haven't bought a new CD since Napster fell,and will not purchase new music on any media format that theRIAA has it's greedy little fingers in , until they stop with the strong-arm tactics or fall prey to their own stupidity.(of the two choices , I prefer the second)

I have not bought any new CD's in the last three years, and I will NEVER buy another CD that the RIAA represents.

Message to RIAA: ITS OVER! ITS BEEN OVER FOR A WHILE.

Personaly I use to buy 50+ CDs a year. Xmas Gifts ect. NOW BIG ZERO. Why? ... I don't want to support those who would have our kids arrasted and sent to jail for uploading a stupid song to the internet when chances are they did not even know they ad done it. Copyright law is a little rough for a 8-13 year old wanting to listen to music. Kazaa is there problem not there customers. I do not know anyone who would not be willing to pay a fair price for there downloaded songs. However the RIAA has desided to declear legal war on 20+ million kids to keep producing worthless CDs. Yea real nice guys. There just protecting there rights... Yea right....

Ya know, with the wars, the economy,patriot acts (1 and 2), with the RIAA/MPAA, and all these various acts to criminalize and beat down American citizens, I've been kinda depressed. But, after reading the posts above, I am getting a glimmer of home. Our country is made of people who have never shyed away from a fight. Our young men and women have fought OTHER people's wars in Nam, Korea, Iraq, and around the world, often going to war for the big fat cats and their oil reserves. Well,now the fat cats that have been sitting on their ass, dodging service, and getting rich off ripping off the country, have decided to attack the same age group that is fighting the wars, that is the future of the country, that are in college or high school. Well RIAA, you think you have had a drop in sales before? You watch this! The irony/cool thing about all this is that we can strike a mortal blow, coup de grace, by sitting and not spending ONE PENNY. I just think that this is wonderful.

Now, it will take a bit of time for the numbers to start pouring in, and the spinmeisters are going to try to make it seem different, but RIAA says that the P2P trading is down...and have said that it is the P2P trading that has caused their drop in sales. Well, how are they going to explain this when the P2P has dropped and their sales are in the toilet!

During my past, I was a freelance writer and lived on what I wrote and sold. I put copyright notices on everything and my byline. Well, I got ripped off. One of the largest news organizations in the world ripped off my story and published in all their affiliates, didn't pay me or give me even a byline. Did I whine and sue like a baby like RIAA? No, you just live and learn.

Echelon, Carnivore, Total Information Awareness (now "Terror Information Awareness") , TIPS (their little neighbor snitch program) Patriot I and II... cameras on our streets, Howard Berman trying to get inside our computers,John Conyer, Orrin Hatch.

I am sick of these assholes trying to scare our whole country.

If a hAcKeR were to have made the SAME
comments that Orrin Hatch made about destroying people's computers, he would have been arrested and charged with terrorism.

You know, terrorism is a word that is bandied about by the incumbent. There are freedom robbing laws being passed in the name of fighting terrorism, wars being fought, money thrown around like water in a time of need here in the USA, well, I can find no better name to pin to the actions of the RIAA and others than the word terrorism.

They are trying to strike terror and fear through acts of intimidation.

I think we need protection from THESE terrorists..the RIAA,MPAA, MediaEnforcer, BayTSP,Ranger Inc., and the rest.

Start demanding your congress people put a stop to these acts of terrorism.
Bin Laden and Saddam are still out there, but they are phantoms. The RIAA is in our face and threatening us.

Demand your representatives and senators stop THIS terrorism.

BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS!

BUY INDIE!

We have more firepower now that I've learned that Bertelsmann (BMG) is being sued by Vivendi (EMI) over Napster. Ah, burn RIAA burn!

I agree with all you've said. Freedom Awards great.

Can we give awrads to someone who hates country?

AAY-MEN!, CodeWarrior.

now, all you need to do is get a real nationwide boycott going. buy some airtime and get going.

The RIAA refers to file-sharing as "pirating" of music. We need to use the same kind of inflammatory language against them. We need to start referring to the RIAA as the "RIAA terrorist organization". And, oh yeah, stop buying CDs! Stop buying mp3s!

Thanks for the kind comments.

The RIAA are committing online terror, plain and simple. If KaZaa and the rest declare their services off limits to the RIAA and the copyright bots,
they can invoke USC TITLE 18,Part 1, Chapter 121, Sec. 2701, since the RIAA would be accessing the network of users without permission and this is a violation, to access stored electonic communications without authorization.
Ya know, I don't really care about much concerning the RIAA except that they go out of business. The quickest way to put a business under is to dry up their working capital. Where does the RIAA get its money? The record company members. Where do they get THEIR money? Us! Sooooo- let's make some news boyz and girlz. Let's really do this boycott right and see how low we can take their numbers. If they have anyone who's taken statistics 101, they will see a one to one correlation between their draconian efforts to harass and intimidate P2P users and the record sales hitting the basement. Let's do it boyz and girlz..
BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS!

Hitting the RIAA, "hollywood" with direct competition is the absolute best idea yet!!!

I can't wait to see the collective frown on hollywood when the only music not shared on a P2P server is the RIAA'S. The only films that fail are the ones with the RIAA soundtracks. I'm giddy over the idea of head to head competition!!!

While the idea has my highest praise, I would like to see a clear success!!!
In my mind that means a BUTT LOAD of dedicated membership, and a serious, organized, and financially stable venture, with artist signatures, (not promosises). Not an easy bird to get off the ground, but exactly what has to happen.

AMEN CODE!
BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT !!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to hear those 'shirts' cryin' in their beer cause nobody is buying their crap,and the average Joe on the street knows it's because of a massive consumer boycott and not some made-up hype about "them damn pirates"

want to help any I can


WABBITMAN

hrosen@riaa.com, sdonofrio@riaa.com, fcreighton@riaa.com, jbetts@riaa.com, sfabrizio@riaa.com, jflatow@riaa.com, dincorvaia@riaa.com, jbendall@riaa.com, clawhorn@riaa.com, jhenkel@riaa.com, lpelliccia@riaa.com, jberman@riaa.com, csherman@riaa.com, nashby@riaa.com, lbocchi@riaa.com, pbrooks@riaa.com, jegas@riaa.com, jfleming@riaa.com, jganoe@riaa.com, hkim@riaa.com, smarks@riaa.com, hmccaffrey@riaa.com, jmilbauer@riaa.com, rmorgan@riaa.com, moppenheim@riaa.com, mpetersen@riaa.com, brobinson@riaa.com, lsalet@riaa.com, msimcik@riaa.com, tsites@riaa.com, dstebbings@riaa.com, btenor@riaa.com, nturkewitz@riaa.com, dvaldez@riaa.com, awalsh@riaa.com, fwalters@riaa.com, jwhitehead@riaa.com, wyascur@riaa.com

Or send to:
Recording Industry Association Of America
1330 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 300
Washington DC 20036


RIAA fax: 202 775-7233
RIAA phone: 202-775- 0101


Let the f**kers know how you feel!!
BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS! BAN THE BASTARDS!

Check this out!

Next they will be trying to sue Google!
They might as well try and sue Microsoft too, but then again, Microsoft would probably kick their ass!

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000 360.html

Even people who don't care about P2P need to support our fight for freedom. It reminds me of a quote from Martin Niemoeller in Nazi Germany.
"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

Today it would be..."First they came for the uploaders with substantial amounts of song files, but I said nothing because I didn't upload, and didn't have lots of song files. Then they came for those who downloaded a few song files, and I said nothing because I didn't download SONG files.
And then, they came for me, but there was no one left to speak up for me."

BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS! BAN THE BASTARDS!

I'm never buying a CD again, haven't bought a single one in 6-8 years, too expensive. Cheap prices my ass.

I haven't bought a cd in the longest time. In fact, I have downloaded more songs than all the songs on all of the cd's i have bought combined. Fuck the RIAA. They deserve it. These guys are tyrannical pigs. They need to be stopped.

BAN THE BASTARDS!!!

This is the moment of truth. I am very pleased to see that some people in society decided not to become sheep like the rest. We need to organize more efficently and with accuracy to defeat RIAA. RIAA is becoming stronger but we the people need to put our differences aside and unite for a common cause. We need to fight for our freedom against the evil empire of the corporations. If we fail so does our freedom....I pray to God we succeed in our struggle against the evil empire.

"It seems to me the best way to hurt rich people is to turn them into poor people."
Billy Ray Valentine, "Trading Places"

Fuque the RIAA

I agree the RIAA is committing online terror and even stooping soo low as to go after children, our heart and soul for our future generation!! BOYCOTT THE BASTRDS!!!

Ok..protest it fine..boycott is good..market forces bearing on the money chain, that's even better. Here's a solution that worked well in the Microsoft monopoly busting days before Bill killed the competition.

1. Start by signing up for Meetup.com
2. Get together every week to discuss this issue.
3. Set up Indie music swap meets, with tshirts and posters to supplement the CD sales.
4. Start webrings of Indie merchants

The RIAA can NOT combat the market. They are merely attempting to shut down an online threat to their cartel distribution system. MAking a bypass system will drain them of their money, when all the local Meetup.com groups are spending their precious entertainment dollars off the RIAA marketing grid.

You've heard it here first kids. Here's what we're doing in Kauai.

http://www.harmonyradio.com/surf/

wrong url on the last posting

www.harmonyradio.com/surf/

Unless I'm missing something here, the RIAA site is riaa.org. All these addresses might not work unless they have correct .org, right?

hrosen@riaa.com, sdonofrio@riaa.com, fcreighton@riaa.com, jbetts@riaa.com, sfabrizio@riaa.com, jflatow@riaa.com, dincorvaia@riaa.com, jbendall@riaa.com, clawhorn@riaa.com, jhenkel@riaa.com, lpelliccia@riaa.com, jberman@riaa.com, csherman@riaa.com, nashby@riaa.com, lbocchi@riaa.com, pbrooks@riaa.com, jegas@riaa.com, jfleming@riaa.com, jganoe@riaa.com, hkim@riaa.com, smarks@riaa.com, hmccaffrey@riaa.com, jmilbauer@riaa.com, rmorgan@riaa.com, moppenheim@riaa.com, mpetersen@riaa.com, brobinson@riaa.com, lsalet@riaa.com, msimcik@riaa.com, tsites@riaa.com, dstebbings@riaa.com, btenor@riaa.com, nturkewitz@riaa.com, dvaldez@riaa.com, awalsh@riaa.com, fwalters@riaa.com, jwhitehead@riaa.com, wyascur@riaa.com

Anyone know if the member-companies of the RIAA are involved in other industries as well? I don't want to support them with my dollars in any way--sort of like not buying Nabisco crackers because they're the same company as Phillip-Morris. We could use a list that tells us exactly what NOT to buy!

If only the war on drugs was doing so well, hehe.

I just love seeing smart people looking out for the principle liberties of justice and the "American Way"!

I have to add a plug for this site:

http://thomas.loc.gov/